Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Pages: 871-891

Journal: The European Journal of Development Research

Volume number: 30

Issue number: 5

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0136-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 

This paper analyzes the impacts of international migration and
remittances on different sources of income in rural Kyrgyzstan. Based on
a household dataset from the Life in Kyrgyzstan panel survey of 1012
rural households, we estimate equations for crop income, livestock
income, and nonagricultural income jointly in a system using the
seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) and general method of moments
(GMM) three-stage least-squares (3SLS) estimators. Our results show that
international migration had diverse effects on different sources of
rural income in Kyrgyzstan. The effect of international migration in
total was negative on crop income, but positive on livestock income and
mixed for nonagricultural income. The positive effect of remittances on
nonagricultural income implies that migration can promote
diversification of rural households’ income sources. This in turn is
associated with less income uncertainty and risk in the future and can
provide a positive contribution to the economic development of a
migrant-sending community.

Harvard Citation style: Zhunusova, E. and Herrmann, R. (2018) Development Impacts of International Migration on “Sending” Communities: The Case of Rural Kyrgyzstan, The European Journal of Development Research, 30(5), pp. 871-891. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0136-5

APA Citation style: Zhunusova, E., & Herrmann, R. (2018). Development Impacts of International Migration on “Sending” Communities: The Case of Rural Kyrgyzstan. The European Journal of Development Research. 30(5), 871-891. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0136-5